just when you thought you knew what stupid was

[Sigarms]

Do that all the time, stop for a moving violation (points) but have a brake light out, I値l write the brake light, etc). I try not to write commercial drivers at all.

Honestly, you seem like a decent LEO who uses common sense.

Seems today that LEO's don't want to talk to people to see what's "going on", but are more accusatory in starting the conversation.

In the LEO's defense, the assumption is most people use common sense:laughing:

 

[RSR]

Does anyone use a rabbit when driving? Sometimes they go even too fast for my own personal comfort.

I used to do that when making the 12 hour trip from home to college (or back) across empty road out west. The speed limit was 75 mph. I'd wait until someone passed going much faster, tail them to get their speed (usually around 90 mph), then let them get about a mile ahead, and match them.

I now realize the risk of driving that fast under any circumstance, even when not in a beat up college car, just isn't worth the risk. So, I drive the speed limit and just try to enjoy the scenery.

 

[tallyho8]

I have lived In Jefferson Parish my whole life and been driving for 60 years. Jefferson Parish has the largest and best equipped police department in Louisiana and very highly trained deputies. I have never gotten a ticket from one of these deputies and have done many hundreds of thousands of miles of driving in the Parish.

There is also a Bridge Police unit in Jefferson Parish that has control over the Huey P Long bridge over the Mississippi and the Causeway bridge over Lake Ponchartrain. Their main purpose is to write speeding tickets (under the guise of improving safety). They are experts at hiding their cars while using their radar guns. The only speeding tickets I have gotten in the last 30 or so years were both last year by the same officer on the Huey P Long bridge. This is a nice newly remodeled bridge with 3 wide lanes each way separated by railroad tracks in the middle, shoulders on both sides, light traffic and high visibility. The speed limit is 50 but everyone goes 60 or more and I feel that it is safer to go with the flow of the traffic than to go the limit making people behind you change lanes to pass the whole time. Most accidents on the bridge are caused by people changing lanes. I am always very respectful to the Officer and go home and pay my ticket online as soon as I can, but I dis-respect the people in charge of giving these Officers the orders to set these speed traps.

 

[Sigarms]

I used to do that when making the 12 hour trip from home to college (or back) across empty road out west. The speed limit was 75 mph. I'd wait until someone passed going much faster, tail them to get their speed (usually around 90 mph), then let them get about a mile ahead, and match them.

I now realize the risk of driving that fast under any circumstance, even when not in a beat up college car, just isn't worth the risk. So, I drive the speed limit and just try to enjoy the scenery.

Thus, the reason why I noted that sometimes they (the "rabbit") may even drive too fast for my own personal preferences, even at 0100 on a interstate highway with no other vehicles in sight other than the rabbit.

 

[Sigarms]

They are experts at hiding their cars while using their radar guns. The only speeding tickets I have gotten in the last 30 or so years were both last year by the same officer on the Huey P Long bridge This is a nice newly remodeled bridge with 3 wide lanes each way separated by railroad tracks in the middle, shoulders on both sides, light traffic and high visibility. The speed limit is 50 but everyone goes 60 or more and I feel that it is safer to go with the flow of the traffic than to go the limit making people behind you change lanes to pass the whole time. Most accidents on the bridge are caused by people changing lanes. I am always very respectful to the Officer and go home and pay my ticket online as soon as I can, but I dis-respect the people in charge of giving these Officers the orders to set these speed traps..

It's nice to know that within the last couple of years, apparently I'm a more safer driver than you according to ovrszd's opinion on his own driving record. Do I actually believe that? No I do not.

My wife has never had ANY ticket violations in her entire life other than one accident where the LEO even told her the other driver had to be speeding. I do joke with her that I've never totaled a car where it was determined I was at fault .

 

[MoMower]

Honestly, you seem like a decent LEO who uses common sense.

Seems today that LEO's don't want to talk to people to see what's "going on", but are more accusatory in starting the conversation.

In the LEO's defense, the assumption is most people use common sense:laughing:

Thanks Sig. there is definitely a generational/life experience gap in being able to talk to people with the younger officers. They usually learn petty quickly to use their words. Some never get it, some excel.

 

[MoMower]

And most definitely, if you are ever curious of the state of common sense in your area,

Take a fully marked police car and park it across a road, with the flashy bits activated. Some have no common sense.

(Directing traffic)

 

[aczlan]

And most definitely, if you are ever curious of the state of common sense in your area,

Take a fully marked police car and park it across a road, with the flashy bits activated. Some have no common sense.

(Directing traffic)

Or (per my co-workers who are volunteer firemen), try the same experiment with a firetruck with it's lights on.


Aaron Z

 

[Sigarms]

Thanks Sig. there is definitely a generational/life experience gap in being able to talk to people with the younger officers. They usually learn petty quickly to use their words. Some never get it, some excel.

No, thank you. Although I may fear the law, I also respect men who wear a badge and actually try to do good, and not talk down to people, but talk with people in their line of work.

I live in a small rural town. I say high to all the LEO's in my area when I see them. Some I know from shooting with. Good guys IMO. The local elected sheriff actually seems like a decent guy as well (the office went out of their way for boy scouts on many local occasions).

Honestly, in defense of the law enforcement profession, it seems the bigger the population density, the more screwed up people are. The way I figure it, it half the population are idiots, with only a county population of 30k, you're only dealing with 15k worth of idiots. Issue is, when the population gets over 100k in any particular area, you have a greater chance of dealing with an idiot if you're working as a LEO.

In my profession I try to stay away from idiots as it makes my life a lot easier in the long run. Working as a law enforcement officer, you HAVE to work with idiots The added reality, and my fear for my own son if he wants to go into law enforcement is if you try to be good with dealing with people, a slight mistake on your end could cost you your life dealing with a scumbag.

 

[Sigarms]

Thanks Sig. there is definitely a generational/life experience gap in being able to talk to people with the younger officers. They usually learn petty quickly to use their words. Some never get it, some excel.

No, thank you. Although I may fear the law, I also respect men who wear a badge and actually try to do good, and not talk down to people, but talk with people in their line of work.

I live in a small rural town. I say high to all the LEO's in my area when I see them. Some I know from shooting with. Good guys IMO. The local elected sheriff actually seems like a decent guy as well (the office went out of their way for boy scouts on many local occasions).

Honestly, in defense of the law enforcement profession, it seems the bigger the population density, the more screwed up people are. The way I figure it, it half the population are idiots, with only a county population of 30k, you're only dealing with 15k worth of idiots. Issue is, when the population gets over 100k in any particular area, you have a greater chance of dealing with an idiot if you're working as a LEO.

In my profession I try to stay away from idiots as it makes my life a lot easier in the long run. Working as a law enforcement officer, you HAVE to work with idiots The added reality, and my fear for my own son if he wants to go into law enforcement is if you try to be good with dealing with people, a slight mistake on your end could cost you your life dealing with a scumbag.